Well... she is a Pretty Woman! Richard Gere is 'quietly dating Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi'

Richard Gereis cooking up a spot of romance with Top Chef beauty, Padma Lakshmi.

Page Six is reporting that the 64-year-old has been 'quietly dating' Padma, 43, while he films in New York.

A source told the website: 'They have been quietly spending some time together. It is all very new and recent, and happened while he has been filming in New York.'

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Hot new couple? Padma Lakshmi and Richard Gere are reported to be 'quietly dating'

Gere is in the process of divorcing his second wife, Carey Lowell, 53, after 11 years of marriage.

The former couple have a son, Homer, and co-owned the Bedford Post Inn together in Westchester County.

Gere was previously married to Cindy Crawford from 1991 to 1995.

Former model Padma was married to author Salman Rushdie, 66, from 2004 to 2007 before embarking on an on/off relationship with billionaire Teddy Forstmann that lasted until his death from brain cancer in 2011 when he was 71.

Great shape: Padma showed off her gym honed body last week after a workout in Manhattan

Not his dapper self: Richard appeared to relieve himself in character on the set of Time Out of Mind in Manhattan last week

She was with Teddy when she gave birth to daughter Krishna Thea Lakshmi-Dell, now three, whose father is Adam Dell, brother of computer mogul, Michael.

When Forstmann died, he left young Krishna a trust fund.

Gere is residing in Manhattan while he films, Time Out of Mind, which tells the story of homeless man - played by Here - trying to build bridges with a long lost daughter.

Divorcing: Richard and Carey Lowell spent over a decade together

Way with words: Padma was married to Midnight's Children author, Salman Rushdie